Fang Yun shook his head gently. As a scholar, he had found the name "Bone-Painting River" rather evocative and imagined it to be a place of refined elegance. Only after hearing the Sunless Peak Saint Spirit's explanation did he realize how terrifying it was.
As Fang Yun devoured the four islands, he inspected the interior of his own Mountain Island.
His Mountain Island was slowly growing taller and larger, and the treasures within it were steadily increasing.
The three Fierce Spirits' Mountain Islands had contained quite a few treasures, all of which had now fallen into his hands.
Unfortunately, most of those treasures were sacred qi and various remains. Even the sacred bones and sacred jade were unusable here; they would only be useful once he returned to the outside world.
While taking stock of the treasures, Fang Yun suddenly noticed something newly drawn into the mountain's interior stirring his Divine Sense. He immediately looked over.
It was a fragment of an azure dragon scale. Its surface had lost all its luster after enduring the scouring of countless years, yet it still released faint traces of dragon qi.
Fang Yun reached out and drew the dragon qi-bearing scale into his hand. At a glance, he recognized it as something the Ancient Dragon Race had used to store dragon qi. Without another word, he opened it and let his True Dragon Ancient Sword absorb the dragon qi.
The True Dragon Ancient Sword had not absorbed any dragon qi in a long time, not since he had left the Dragon Ascension Platform.
The scale contained a fair amount of dragon qi, enough to raise an ordinary Tongue Sword from having no markings to having two. But for the True Dragon Ancient Sword, which already had seven markings, this dragon qi was merely